{"id":179034,"date":"2018-06-08T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/08\/making-sure-that-a-democratic-victory-will-have-no-meaning\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T23:07:00","slug":"making-sure-that-a-democratic-victory-will-have-no-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/08\/making-sure-that-a-democratic-victory-will-have-no-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Sure that A Democratic Victory Will Have No Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OZ8nFWSD-P7ZtK3ceA8CijgnLVf1Pcru3gCbGn0M26Kk4_uDeTMKT0flo9IT9gm7=s0-d\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OZ8nFWSD-P7ZtK3ceA8CijgnLVf1Pcru3gCbGn0M26Kk4_uDeTMKT0flo9IT9gm7=s0-d\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/splinternews.com\/democrats-vow-to-bring-back-stupid-and-harmful-spending-1826620867\">promised to being back &#8220;Pay-Go&#8221; rules if they take control of the House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I get it, they want to wear their bib-boy pants, and this makes them feel like the adults in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it means that Democrats will do nothing for ordinary people if they gain power.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, &#8220;Pay-Go&#8221; is, and always has been, little more than an attempt to justify hurting poor people, Bill Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;Welfare Reform&#8221; being a classic example.<\/p>\n<p>n 2006 and 2008, by allowing themselves to be reluctantly dragged into opposing a stupid and unpopular war, the Democrats ran the table.<\/p>\n<p>They got their &#8220;Shellacking&#8221; in 2010 because they did nothing with that power.<\/p>\n<p>Also note that this effectively makes single-payer impossible, particularly since it has to be run through a Congressional Budget Office whose staff has been packed with Neanderthals for the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Also add to this the fact that the other side never ever does this when they are in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats have promised to being back &#8220;Pay-Go&#8221; rules if they take control of the House. I get it, they want to wear their bib-boy pants, and this makes them feel like the adults in the room. Unfortunately, it means that Democrats will do nothing for ordinary people if they gain power. What&#8217;s more, &#8220;Pay-Go&#8221; is, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[446,375,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-179034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-budget","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}